Well, both Linux and Windows have come a long way. I think it is pretty safe to assume that neither the WinXP nor Linux Kernal will crash. My concerns are rather regarding coLinux which still seems to be in alpha stage..
Microsoft Space Agency? Well, not that close, but this company is expected to win the X-prize and it is sponsored by Microsoft money. (Not in the direct way, though..)
Will they also have pictures of the devastated dresden after they bombed the city center crowded with hundreds of thousands civilian refugees and no military targets in sight?
Well, any kind of high energy battary poses a kind of danger. The energy density of modern batteries approaches that of nuclear reactors. Any kind of physical damange (also heat) may release the stored energy in a quick fashion. Naturally it will be converted to enormous amounts of heat..
Well, you should not forget that he and his family was rather leaned towards the austrian part. He visited a german school. Later on he worked under David Hilbert in Goettigen, Germany.
Rojas showed that Zuse's electromechanical Z3 (and by inference, the mechanical Z1 of the same architecture) is universal in the Turing sense in a 1998 IEEE article.
Great find, thank you. But the abstract states: "This is done by simulating conditional branching and indirect addressing by purely arithmetical means". So indeed the branching is no inherent feature of the machine but rather a hack.
I know a similar hack exists for the ENIAC to allow branches. But the ENIAC does not even execute something like a program as we know it today. IMO the ENIAC is massively overrated.
This is really great news for all online gamers, because this allows games like features in this article further down the top page without losing all your money to your wireless provider.
Just imagine all the geeky reallife RPGs you can build using this technique!
One of the other computer pioneers, Turing, was driven to suicide by his gouvernment. He was sentenced to take drugs to "cure" homosexuality. Touch times for computer pioneers back then.
Luckily Zuse lived up to a very old age and just died a few years ago.
The SIG of the previous poster contains a link to an Internet Explorer exploit. (Try wgetting it) MOD DOWN!
Re:Your tax dollars at work, folks.
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As usual software solution could have been done for far less than a bulky hardware solution
Yes, but how does the software read the suns inclination? RAND()? Besides that, I'd choose a failsafe, simple piece of hardware like the sundial, over a blown up piece of software every day.
This linked article is an excellent roundup of the ongoing battle between AMD and Intel. It holds a lot of insight for people who have not been following the news closely.
However, it has to be pointed out that he missed several important incidents:
-AMDs deal with Tippet studios: We built some prototype desktop workstations powered by AMD Athlon(TM) MP processors. We had tried systems powered by a competitor's processors, and they worked fairly well. However, we absolutely preferred the performance of the AMD Athlon(TM) processor. A good part of the advantage comes from the performance of AMD's floating point engine, which is very important to compute-intensive operations such as rendering.
-Intels new challenge in process technology with a cheap strained silicon process, finally unveiled at the iedm. AMD, this will be a touch one: IEDM article
Are you wearing glases? For cheap lenses (as common in the US for example) you often have chromatic dispersion. The lenses are good for the green-red range of colors, but are a bit off for blue..
"That led him to think whether it's merely the lattice separation, instead of the material itself, that matters."
I cant help but commenting here: This is a trivial result of even the simplest models to explain the existence of a band structure. (tight binding, kronig-penny etc) I guess he did not just realise it experimentally.
The idea of strained silicon is to apply a mechanical stress to the silicon. This will change the spacing between the silicon atoms (the lattice spacing), which will indirectly reduce the channel resistance, therefore allowing faster transistor switching speed.
Indeed, this has been known for a long time, but so far it has not been used in commercial products due to the problems involved with the actual manufacturing of theses devices.
The classical way to manufacture theses devices is to grow a thin layer of silicon germanium on your wafer. The SiGe layer has a slightly different lattice spacing than silicon. When a silicon layer is grown on top of the SiGe layer it adapts its lattice spacing. Therefore it is possible to grow silicon layers with a slightly different lattice spacing.
This way is persued by IBM and others and is quite expensive.
Intel managed to find a different way. They just build their transistores on common Si-Wafers, but deposit mechanically stressed layers on top of their transistors. This will result in a mechanical stress in the transistor channel and does therefore lead to the same result.
The difference is that Intels method is a lot cheaper (adds only 2% to overall cost), they have all the patents, and it does actually work in a manifacturing process.
o stackable chip - unpropable o 64Bit extension by module? Good joke, there is just no way to provide this technically.. o "lots of wires" - no way, you dont get above 20MHz when connection a CPU by wires o 4000MHz front side bus - no way there is a tenfold increase.
It's using MEMS (= Micro Electro-Mechanical System) devices. These are small enough not to break off from a bended substrate (if you succeed in putting them on it).
MEMS does not mean it provides solutions to anything.
RTF Website
Well, in fact I did. Actually I am into the field of MEMS, therefore I am trying to look behind the marketing statements. And, from my perspective these devices look like they are very sensitive to differential stress which occurs during bending.
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Well, both Linux and Windows have come a long way. I think it is pretty safe to assume that neither the WinXP nor Linux Kernal will crash. My concerns are rather regarding coLinux which still seems to be in alpha stage..
Microsoft Space Agency? Well, not that close, but this company is expected to win the X-prize and it is sponsored by Microsoft money. (Not in the direct way, though..)
Will they also have pictures of the devastated dresden after they bombed the city center crowded with hundreds of thousands civilian refugees and no military targets in sight?
Well, any kind of high energy battary poses a kind of danger. The energy density of modern batteries approaches that of nuclear reactors. Any kind of physical damange (also heat) may release the stored energy in a quick fashion. Naturally it will be converted to enormous amounts of heat..
Born and schooled in Budapest, Hungary
Well, you should not forget that he and his family was rather leaned towards the austrian part. He visited a german school. Later on he worked under David Hilbert in Goettigen, Germany.
Rojas showed that Zuse's electromechanical Z3 (and by inference, the mechanical Z1 of the same architecture) is universal in the Turing sense in a 1998 IEEE article.
Great find, thank you. But the abstract states:
"This is done by simulating conditional branching and indirect addressing by purely arithmetical means". So indeed the branching is no inherent feature of the machine but rather a hack.
I know a similar hack exists for the ENIAC to allow branches. But the ENIAC does not even execute something like a program as we know it today. IMO the ENIAC is massively overrated.
Btw. mod parent up!
This is really great news for all online gamers, because this allows games like features in this article further down the top page without losing all your money to your wireless provider.
Just imagine all the geeky reallife RPGs you can build using this technique!
More information about Neumann:
i cians/Von_Neumann.html
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html
http://www.neumann.com/
http://www.mbi.ufl.edu/~vetneumann
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathemat
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~neumann/
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/vonNeumann.html
http://www.karto.ethz.ch/neumann/
http://www.rit.edu/~drk4633/vonNeumann/
http://www.fsm-a.org/neumann
Well, the colossus just applied a lot of rather simple prewired binary options to data read from an endless loop. It was quite fast, but very simple.
Zuses computer already used floating point arithmetics and was able to execute a programs read from a spunched film strip.
One of the other computer pioneers, Turing, was driven to suicide by his gouvernment. He was sentenced to take drugs to "cure" homosexuality. Touch times for computer pioneers back then.
Luckily Zuse lived up to a very old age and just died a few years ago.
Interesting that you mention this combination, because even though Zuses computer was very advanced, it was not Turing complete.
Apparently ENIAC was neither, so von Neumanns contribution to the EDSAC may have indeed resultet in the first Turing complete machine.
The SIG of the previous poster contains a link to an Internet Explorer exploit. (Try wgetting it) MOD DOWN!
As usual software solution could have been done for far less than a bulky hardware solution
Yes, but how does the software read the suns inclination? RAND()? Besides that, I'd choose a failsafe, simple piece of hardware like the sundial, over a blown up piece of software every day.
I already found the info on http://www.javagrande.org/. But indeed the website says:
"There are currently no plans for a full meeting in 2003."
So it is probably over already.
Ok, so now that Java is on the retreat they try to enter a new area? May they succeed if it is worthy.
One thing puzzles me, however. What is Java grande? Was it so shortlived that I missed it?
Please read the linked article before posting statements, Mr. Karmawhore. Its a very excellent roundup.
Well, Tom may be overly enthusiastic at times, but you should not forget that he, and only he, had several world first on his website.
For example when he published thermal problems with the AMD athlons, instabilities of the to be released Pentium III 1.13GHz article and much more.
Judge the articles by themselves, not the website as a whole.
This linked article is an excellent roundup of the ongoing battle between AMD and Intel. It holds a lot of insight for people who have not been following the news closely.
However, it has to be pointed out that he missed several important incidents:
- AMD alliance with SUN: news article
-AMDs deal with Tippet studios: We built some prototype desktop workstations powered by AMD Athlon(TM) MP processors. We had tried systems powered by a competitor's processors, and they worked fairly well. However, we absolutely preferred the performance of the AMD Athlon(TM) processor. A good part of the advantage comes from the performance of AMD's floating point engine, which is very important to compute-intensive operations such as rendering.
-Intels new challenge in process technology with a cheap strained silicon process, finally unveiled at the iedm. AMD, this will be a touch one: IEDM article
Try this link instead, it should work:
s tal2mpdemo-lnx-1407.tar.bz2.torrent
http://www.torrentnet.com/torrents/games/linux/po
Are you wearing glases? For cheap lenses (as common in the US for example) you often have chromatic dispersion. The lenses are good for the green-red range of colors, but are a bit off for blue..
"That led him to think whether it's merely the lattice separation, instead of the material itself, that matters."
I cant help but commenting here: This is a trivial result of even the simplest models to explain the existence of a band structure. (tight binding, kronig-penny etc) I guess he did not just realise it experimentally.
Since when is Strained Silicon Secret?
The idea of strained silicon is to apply a mechanical stress to the silicon. This will change the spacing between the silicon atoms (the lattice spacing), which will indirectly reduce the channel resistance, therefore allowing faster transistor switching speed.
Indeed, this has been known for a long time, but so far it has not been used in commercial products due to the problems involved with the actual manufacturing of theses devices.
The classical way to manufacture theses devices
is to grow a thin layer of silicon germanium on your wafer. The SiGe layer has a slightly different lattice spacing than silicon. When a silicon layer is grown on top of the SiGe layer it adapts its lattice spacing. Therefore it is possible to grow silicon layers with a slightly different lattice spacing.
This way is persued by IBM and others and is quite expensive.
Intel managed to find a different way. They just build their transistores on common Si-Wafers, but deposit mechanically stressed layers on top of their transistors. This will result in a mechanical stress in the transistor channel and does therefore lead to the same result.
The difference is that Intels method is a lot cheaper (adds only 2% to overall cost), they have all the patents, and it does actually work in a manifacturing process.
[.. lots of very inaccurate nerd gibberish deleted.. ]
I believe you are mixing up strained silicon with SOI?
This is most probably a fake:
o stackable chip - unpropable
o 64Bit extension by module? Good joke, there is just no way to provide this technically..
o "lots of wires" - no way, you dont get above 20MHz when connection a CPU by wires
o 4000MHz front side bus - no way there is a tenfold increase.
Try harder next time..
That is definitly not true - please supply reference if you believe otherwhise.
It's using MEMS (= Micro Electro-Mechanical System) devices. These are small enough not to break off from a bended substrate (if you succeed in putting them on it).
MEMS does not mean it provides solutions to anything.
RTF Website
Well, in fact I did. Actually I am into the field of MEMS, therefore I am trying to look behind the marketing statements. And, from my perspective these devices look like they are very sensitive to differential stress which occurs during bending.